Portfile Workflow Advice

[Sean Farley]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org> wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2013, at 12:48 PM, Sean Farley <sean at macports.org> wrote:
>
>> 2) Patch review? Sometimes I have questions on how to do a particular
>> task (i.e. best practice for "extracting" a script that isn't zipped?)
>> but can't figure it out by looking at other portfiles mostly due to
>> the fact that it's not commonly done. I could send an email to the dev
>> mailing list asking the quesetion, just commit the portfile and hope
>> that someone points out a better way, send a patch to the mailing
>> list, or submit a Trac ticket. Over the last year of so of lurking, I
>> haven't quite seen a uniform practice set, so any feedback is much
>> appreciated.
>
> Not sure there's really a best practice for this. I like to ask the dev list first; that's what it's for, after all.

Fair enough; I can try that.